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Status
Released
Release
1959
Runtime
1h 23m
Available options inUS
"They're taking over the country in an invasion of laughs!"
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
29 Cast Members
Peter Sellers
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
Jean Seberg
Helen Kokintz
William Hartnell
Will Buckley
David Kossoff
Professor Alfred Kokintz
Leo McKern
Benter
MacDonald Parke
General Snippet
Austin Willis
United States Secretary of Defense
Timothy Bateson
Roger
Monte Landis
Cobbley
Alan Gifford
Air Raid Warden
Colin Gordon
BBC Announcer
Harold Kasket
Pedro
Guy Deghy
Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Eve Eden
Spectator (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
Army Captain (uncredited)
Mabel Etherington
Ada - Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Muriel Greenslade
Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Fred Haggerty
Fenwickian (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
Maybury (uncredited)
George Margo
O'Hara (uncredited)
